- Spectacular lighting and the atmosphere of night
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Our monument tour and photo-tour adapt to the night. We add one or several trendy bars or active cafés, depending on what is going that night.
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- Jazz cradle
Paris was the first European city to welcome black American musicians. Its prestigious intelligentsia recognized the intellectual and rigorous aspect of a music conventionally deemed too gripping to be serious.
It remains the capital through which most jazz musicians sooner or later pass. |
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One hears excellent jazz in a great hotel...
or in a jazz club, a café or a neighborhood joint where the patron loves music. The maze is so complex and changing that only a person who belongs to that world will know where it's best to go, for what kind of music, on that night.
Musician, composer and president of a major jazz-artists' association, our guide discusses with visitors the list of roughly 40 jazz possibilities Paris hosts each night. He brings his trumpet and may jam with the musicians, whom he usually knows.
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Immigrants inject a unique energy, which blends spontaneously with local roots - as jazz does. One way to approach them: Let a Cameroonian queen take us under her wing.
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- Celebrations, public and private
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•Where dance on Bastille-Day eve? •Where hear the best music during the Fête de la musique? •What is a convivial bistro for Beaujolais nouveau? •Any neighborhood jazz? |
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•Is there a way to meet English-speaking Parisians?
We make suggestions for public festivities and sometimes obtain invitations for private ones.
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Jazzman 1954 / Robert Desnay (the site where our guide is playing is the same)